Vittorio Alfieri Quotes About Crime

• Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Doe, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.

• Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Men, Heaven, Care

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 148-149), 1922.

• To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Wicked, Crime, Repentance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 665), 1922.

• The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Plot, Prison

  "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.

• Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Real, Pride

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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